2027 OPEN CALL
Creative Capital
DEADLINE: April 2, 2026 at 3:00pm ET
INFO: In celebration of 25 years of national artist support, the 2027 Open Call invites project proposals from individual artists for the Creative Capital Award and the new State of the Art Prize. All grants will be awarded via a national, open call, external review process.
The Creative Capital Award provides individual artists with unrestricted project grants for the creation of innovative, original, and imaginative new artistic works. The Award provides unrestricted project grants from $15,000 up to $50,000, plus professional development support, industry connections, and community-building opportunities.
The State of the Art Prize aims to recognize and support one artist from every U.S. state and inhabited territory, with an unrestricted artist grant of $10,000. Through the 2027 Open Call for the Creative Capital Award, Creative Capital will also select recipients for the new State of the Art Prize.
OVERVIEW:
Celebrating 25 years of national artist support, Creative Capital invites individual artists to apply for grants to create new works in the visual arts, performing arts (dance, theater, music/jazz), film, literature, technology, multidisciplinary, and socially engaged forms across all 50 states and territories. The 2027 Creative Capital Open Call will be the second year Creative Capital continues its goal to grant artists residing in all 50 states. See the complete list of 2026 Creative Capital Awards and 2026 Inaugural State of the Art Prize Artists in all 50 states, as well as Guam, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C. in the press release.
Founded in 1999, our mission as a national nonprofit organization is to champion artistic freedom by providing grants and services to individual artists creating new work. The new State of the Art Prize is designed to help support more regional and rural artists, to invest in grassroots creative economies, and to foster a vibrant cultural landscape across the U.S. Both the Creative Capital Award and the State of the Art Prize support artists of all backgrounds at all career stages working across a range of disciplines, themes, and ideas.
Creative Capital Award
For the 2027 grant cycle, Creative Capital invites professional artists to propose experimental, original, bold new works in Visual Arts, Performing Arts (Dance, Theater, Music/Jazz), Film, and Literature. Multidisciplinary, technology, and/or socially engaged projects are welcome in all disciplinary categories. Creative Capital seeks new project proposals for formally and/or conceptually innovative works in all disciplines.
Creative Capital welcomes a full range of artistic approaches and thematic inquiries, including boundary-pushing formal explorations, as well as projects that engage urgent social issues of our time. Creative Capital also seeks new projects or works addressing subjects that Creative Capital has not previously funded.
The Creative Capital Award aims to support approximately 50 new artistic works in the following areas:
Visual Arts: architecture & design, craft, drawing, ecological art, illustration, installation, painting, printmaking, performance art, photography, public art, sculpture, social practice, sound art, video art, technology, and socially-engaged visual art
Performing Arts: dance, jazz, multimedia performance, music, music theater, opera, theater, playwriting, technology, and socially-engaged performing arts
Film: animation, documentary film, experimental film, and narrative film
Literature: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays (playwrights please submit under Performing Arts/Theater)
Creative Capital’s transformative giving approach is built on the principle that artists need funding as well as networks and advisory services in order to realize ambitious projects and build thriving careers. Recipients of the Creative Capital Award will receive grant funding, professional development services, and community-building opportunities. Awardees will also have access to the Creative Capital Artist Lab—suite of online professional development courses.
The State of the Art Prize – NEW!
Through the 2027 Open Call process for the Creative Capital Award, Creative Capital will also select recipients of the State of the Art Prize. Now in its second year, this new national initiative aims to recognize one artist residing in each U.S. state and inhabited territory with a $10,000 unrestricted grant per artist. All applicants to the 2027 Open Call will be automatically considered for the Creative Capital Award and the State of the Art Prize. Both grants follow the same application, external review process, and evaluation criteria; there is no separate application process. State of the Art Prize recipients will also have access to the Creative Capital Artist Lab—a suite of online professional development courses.
State of the Art Prize recipients may apply again to future open calls for the Creative Capital Award. However, artists who have already received the Creative Capital Award may not apply for the State of the Art Prize. Both the State of the Art Prize and the Creative Capital Award are one-time awards.
ELIGIBILITY:
US citizen, permanent resident, Tribal ID holder, or O-1 visa holder at time of application
At least 25 years old at time of application
Working artist(s) with at least 5 years of professional artistic practice within their chosen discipline
Applicant may not be enrolled in a degree-granting program at time of application
May not apply to the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant program in the same year
May not have previously received a Creative Capital Award
May not be an applicant or collaborator on more than one proposed project per year
State of the Art Prize recipients must be a resident of the state they are awarded in through February 1, 2027. Prize recipients must verify their state or territory of residence in order to receive the grant.
Projects that are not eligible
Projects whose main purpose is promotional
Project is to fund ongoing operations of existing business or nonprofit organization
Curation or documentation of existing work
Journalism projects and podcasts
Educational projects intended for a student audience
Children’s and young adult literature, and graphic novels
Projects that will premiere or be completed before July 1, 2027
creative-capital.org/creative-capital-award/award-application
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INKWELL THEATER DEVELOPMENT LAB
Inkwell Theater (Los Angeles, CA)
DEADLINE: April 3, 2026
INFO: A unique program in Los Angeles, the LAB aims to bring the writer out of their office, or coffee shop, and into the rehearsal room. While we recognize the necessity for writers to work on their own, we believe that nothing benefits works-in-progress more than artistic collaboration.
The LAB is focused on developing new plays through a collaborative workshop process. We believe that by working in a rehearsal setting with a director and actors, a playwright can best further their plays. Playwrights tell us often how they gained new insights from simply seeing their work with a cast, not to mention the constructive input from directors and other artists.
We begin with a writer and their first draft. During a 3-week intensive process, writers will not only see and hear that draft as written but will also see their rewrites, changes, and inspired ideas come to life. This is aided by introducing an experienced and versatile director, bringing their own unique insights to the play. Mixing in a cast of talented performers only adds to the volume of artistic brainpower being brought to bear upon the play. And pulling the playwright into the rehearsal room brings the whole thing together.
The playwrights selected for each LAB season are the recipients of The Lerner Fellowship, which provides financial, logistical, and artistic support. Max K. Lerner was special counsel and a senior advisor to the Shubert Theatre Organization for over 30 years. During his tenure there, new plays were strongly fostered, including such pieces as Amadeus, Children of a Lesser God, City of Angels, Dreamgirls, A Few Good Men, Glengarry Glen Ross, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, “Master Harold”…and the Boys, ‘night, Mother, The Real Thing, Sunday in the Park with George, and Little Shop of Horrors. Max was a passionate advocate for emerging writers in the theater, and this Fellowship honors his lifelong commitment.
ELIGIBILITY:
Anyone is eligible to submit. There are no restrictions based on age, experience, representation, formal training or union-affiliation.
Please submit only full, completed scripts. It can be an early draft, but we do require a compete script in order to evaluate the submission.
Submitted work cannot have been previously produced. (Private workshops and readings are not considered productions).
Commissioned work is not eligible for submission.
At this time, we are not able to consider musicals.
Previous applicants may re-apply, but only with new material. We do not accept plays that have been previously submitted.
Submissions from writers outside of the LA area are accepted, but the writer is responsible for transportation and accommodations (if selected).
Please limit your submissions to one every six months
FELLOWSHIP REQUIREMENT:
Applicant agrees to grant The Inkwell Theater Development Lab exclusive use of the submitted project, for the purpose of its stated workshop and development process, for up to a two-month period.
Applicant acknowledges that the project will be workshopped over a period of three weeks and presented for a fourth.
Applicant agrees to provide a “First Rehearsal” draft no later than two (2) weeks before the start of workshop.
Applicant agrees to provide a final draft, for presentation, no earlier then seven (7) days and no later than two (2) days before the final scheduled rehearsal.
If selected for the Max K. Lerner Fellowship, playwrights will be offered a rehearsal and presentation slot during the LAB season and a $1000 honorarium. The Inkwell Theater Development LAB will provide a professional team of artists (director, actors, dramaturge, etc) and production support, as well as rehearsal and production space. For more information, you can contact us at lab@inkwelltheater.com
inkwelltheater.com/lab-submission-guidelines/
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MU TANG CLAN playwrights incubator
Theater Mu |📍St. Paul, MN
DEADLINE: April 3, 2026 at 11:59pm CT
INFO: In 2021, Theater Mu’s Mellon Foundation playwright-in-residence, Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay, created the Mu Tang Clan (MTC) playwrights incubator program in partnership with Theater Mu as part of several initiatives to develop more Asian and Pacific Islander American playwrights. For our third cohort, we’ve partnered with New Native Theatre to provide playwrights the space, time, and support to create a new full-length play (unproduced).
Funded by the Jerome Foundation, we invite early-career playwrights with 2-10 years of experience to apply to the intensive four-month program. Through nine in-person weekly sessions, co-facilitators Rhiana Yazzie and Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay will guide playwrights as they workshop and discuss new pages and topics related to playwriting and the influences that impact their work. Playwrights will also receive 1-1 dramaturgical support of their new draft at the end of the nine sessions. Additionally, through a partnership with the Playwrights’ Center, playwrights will receive a year-long Playwrights’ Center membership.
Four playwrights will be selected for MTC Vol 3. The weekly three-hour sessions will be held at Theater Mu in Saint Paul, MN, from July to October 2026. Playwrights will emerge with a first draft of their play and will receive 1-1 sessions with a dramaturg to help sharpen the script's structure, deepen character motivations, and ensure the playwright’s artistic vision is clearly realized. Cohort members must attend all sessions to deepen the community and relationships they will build together.
THE INCUBATOR PROVIDES:
$1,000 unrestricted stipend
1-1 dramaturgy session(s)
a yearlong membership to The Playwrights’ Center
time each week to receive feedback and guidance on new pages
a safer space for playwrights to be bold, vulnerable, and supported
career guidance session with the artistic directors of Mu and New Native
greater local and national visibility and artistic autonomy
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
Identify as an early-career generative playwright with a minimum of two years of experience and a maximum of 10 years.
Commit to work on a new unproduced play.
Resident of Minnesota and able to attend all nine sessions in person in the Twin Cities.
Legally able to receive a stipend from Theater Mu. We are a 501(c)(3) and will require a W9.
TIMELINE:
Fri, Apr 3, 11:59 pm CT: application deadline
April: panel review
May: all applicants will be notified
June: public announcement of MTC playwrights
July- October: program period, exact session dates + time will be determined by consensus of MTC playwrights
REQUIRED MATERIALS:
Cover Page
Artist Statement
Artist Resume
Writing Sample
A. Cover Page
Include your name, phone number, email, address, website, and/or social media handles.
Please include any dates that will not work for you between July 6 and August 31. For example:
Monday and Tuesday evenings do not work for me in July.
I am out of town from Aug 1-4.
I have a part-time job from 9 am to 5 pm, Mondays and Wednesdays.
B. Artist Statement (1 page max)
Tell us about yourself, your artistic background, and your experience with playwriting. We want to know what inspired you to pursue playwriting, the questions that guide your work, and what keeps you connected to playwriting.
What is your relationship to/with the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Native, and Indigenous communities?
Tell us about the new play that you plan to work on during the program. What is it about, and what stage is the script currently in?
The incubator program is intended to be a community. How do you see yourself contributing to the Mu Tang Clan community of playwrights?
C. Artist Resume (2 pages max)
Please include all relevant information connected to your experience as a playwright.
D. Writing Sample (15 pages max)
Prepare up to 15 pages of an excerpt from a script. Share writing that best represents you, the work you do, and the stories you’re excited to tell. You may include a synopsis if the excerpt is from a full-length play.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Email your application packet as a single PDF to saymoukda@theatermu.org by 11:59 pm CT on Apr 3, 2026.
For the email subject, use: “MTC Vol 3”
Name your file as: FIRSTNAME_LASTNAME_MTCV3APP
If you have multiple PDFs, you can merge them using a free online PDF merger service such as smallPDF.com.
Theater Mu and New Native Theatre will not be able to provide feedback for your application. If you have questions about the program or these guidelines, please contact Saymoukda at saymoukda@theatermu.org.
theatermu.org/mu-tang-clan-vol-3#gsc.tab=0
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Godfather Prize for Playwriting
Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists (CAATA)
DEADLINE: April 3, 2026
INFO: A national playwriting award supporting AANHPI, SWANA, MENA, and Mixed-Race playwrights, the Godfather Prize celebrates an artist whose work reflects artistic excellence, cultural impact, and the spirit of legacy, resistance, and evolution.
As a collective of Asian American, Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI), South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA), Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Mixed-Race theater artists and administrators, CAATA celebrates the vitality of our communities while working toward our shared values of social justice, cultural equity, artistic diversity, and inclusion.
Playwrights who identify as a part of our collective are invited to submit an original 10-minute play to be considered for the Godfather Prize.
One playwright will be selected to receive the inaugural Godfather Prize. Selected finalists for the prize will be invited to participate in CAATA’s inaugural 10-Minute Playwriting Festival: Legacy. Resistance. Evolution. This virtual festival will feature live-streamed presentations of the selected finalists’ plays in November 2026.
To protect the integrity of the process, applicants are asked not to contact any members of the selection committees directly. All questions or concerns should be directed to Kayla Kim Votapek, CAATA Executive Director, at Kayla@caata.net.
APPLICANTS MUST SUBMIT:
One (1) original 10-minute play that centers the themes of Legacy. Resistance. Evolution.
An Artist Statement of about 250-300 words.
The statement should speak to the playwright’s artistic practice, cultural lineage or connection to the communities CAATA serves, and relationship to the themes of Legacy. Resistance. Evolution.
The artist statement will not be reviewed during the initial rounds. It will only be considered during the final round of selection.
ADDITIONAL SCRIPT GUIDELINES:
One submission per playwright
Maximum length: 10 minutes
1 - 4 actors maximum
Must be suitable for Zoom / online staged reading
Must meaningfully support and reflect the lived experiences, histories, or futures of AANHPI, SWANA, MENA, and/or Mixed-Race communities
ELIGIBILITY:
Applicants must meet all of the following criteria:
Playwright should self-identify as part of the Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander (AANHPI), South West Asia & North Africa (SWANA), Middle East & North Africa (MENA), and/or Mixed-Race communities that CAATA is dedicated to supporting
Have not received a major national or international playwriting award in the last 12 years
Have not had a play produced by a LORT or commercial theater
Have not achieved sustained national recognition (defined as consistent visibility across the U.S. beyond local or regional contexts)
Open to all ages
CAATA is a community-centered organization, and this prize is intentionally designed to uplift playwrights from within the communities CAATA serves.
caata.net/godfather-prize-for-playwriting
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Miranda Family Fellowship
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company / Miranda Family Fund (Washington, DC)
DEADLINE: April 6, 2026
INFO: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, a national leader in the creation of innovative theatre, is launching the fifth cohort of its transformative fellowship program in partnership with the Miranda Family Fund, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s family philanthropic fund. This ambitious program is designed to provide talented candidates from historically underrepresented communities with the resources and training necessary to build their careers as arts administrators or theatre technicians.
Each fellowship is structured as a paid two year-long department-specific entry-level associate position with health insurance benefits. This is a non-exempt position, and you will be entitled to receive overtime pay in accordance with applicable law. As an employee of WMTC, you will be expected to abide by WMTC’s rules and regulations. You will be required to sign an acknowledgement that you have read and understand WMTC’s rules of conduct as provided in the Employee Handbook, which WMTC will distribute. The fellowship is intended to last for a two-year term scheduled to begin in August 2026.
The Miranda Family Fellowship Program is in partnership with a lead gift from the Miranda Family Fund. Additional support is provided by the Patalano Family (Lou, Jodi, Ali, and Will), the Flamboyan Foundation, and Tommy Kail.
Woolly Mammoth is committed to rooting out oppressive practices in the American theatre that have resulted in inequities and harm towards many would-be theatre makers. One such field-wide practice that rewards privilege and discourages inclusivity is the hiring of unpaid interns and apprentices — thus creating one of many barriers to entering the theatre industry. The Miranda Family Fellows Program at Woolly Mammoth disrupts this system by compensating fellows with full-time pay and health care benefits. Through this exciting model, Woolly Mammoth and the Miranda Family Fund are shining a light on the need for greater equity, diversity, inclusion, and access behind the scenes in the American theatre, and creating a new point of entry into the field for the next generation of arts leaders. No candidate will be disqualified for consideration on the basis of any demographic characteristics.
Alongside position-specific duties, Fellows will have access to intra-departmental mentorship, professional development opportunities and coaching, site visits and performances at local performing arts organizations, and monthly conversations with industry leaders. To deepen their analysis of equity, diversity, inclusion, and access, and the role arts organizations can play in furthering movements for social justice, Fellows will receive anti-racism and anti-oppression training and access to affinity spaces.
Fellows will also be required to participate in the larger Miranda Family Fellowship program, focused on providing targeted, practical career preparation. Under the Management Track, Fellows will participate in quarterly video modules and workshops alongside other Management Fellows in their first year, followed by monthly 1-1 coaching sessions in their second year. A member of the Miranda Family Fund team will participate in early interviews for candidates alongside Woolly Mammoth supervisors.
Fellowships will be offered in Connectivity, New Work, Producing, and Production. Please see detailed job descriptions below.
Please email mffellowship@woollymammoth.net with any questions.
woollymammoth.net/connectivity/fellowships/#alumni
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call for submissions: The Boost
Leah Ryan Fund
DEADLINE: April 13, 2026 (or until 150 applications are received)
INFO: The Leah Ryan Fund helps sustain and support writers facing individual challenges and systemic oppression so they can keep writing, connecting, creating, and thriving. The Fund currently offers an annual playwriting prize (The Leah) and an annual award for writers facing a serious illness (The Vladimir), and the newly created commission (The Boost).
Submissions for the second round of The Boost, a commission awarded by the board of the Leah Ryan Fund, are open.
ELIGIBILITY: An eligible applicant for The Boost is a woman, trans, and/or non-binary playwright age 40 or over who has had at least one production performed in front of a paying audience OR a script published by an established/known publishing/licensing house.
APPLICATION MATERIALS:
A two-page project summary in which the writer describes the play they intend to write, and answers the question: what about Leah’s play Debt inspired your idea for this play?
CV / production history
Fifteen pages of a work that best represents the writer’s voice. (This does not need to be the first fifteen pages of the work, just the pages you feel are the strongest).
One reference – someone who can speak to your work as a playwright and theater maker (no letter is needed.)
THE WINNER WILL RECEIVE:
$10,000 to be received $6K at time of commission, $4K on completion
A reading in Fall 2027
The Leah Ryan Fund was established in 2008 to honor the memory of Leah Ryan, a woman of letters who wrote plays, poetry, essays, lyrics, adaptations, and collaborated with performance artists.
leahryanfund.org/about-the-boost/
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ‘QUEER MYTHOLOGIES’
Foglifter
DEADLINE: April 15, 2026
INFO: As Foglifter revitalizes our website and digital production, we are interested in creating and holding space for works that may not fit within the constraints of our print edition. We are now accepting submissions for our new Online Exclusive Issue dedicated to showcasing queer voices across a wide spectrum of creative forms.
As always, we are seeking art that aligns with our mission of promoting queer, transgressive, and original work. The themes will change from issue to issue. For 1.2, our theme is Queer Mythologies: a celebration of spirituality, folklore, and queer cosmologies. This open call seeks dreamlike, symbolic, and otherworldly explorations that reimagine mythology through a queer lens—queering gods and monsters, rewriting origin stories, and uncovering hidden lineages of desire, transformation, and devotion.
We welcome interpretations of tarot, astrology, ritual, and divination that challenge binaries and expand spiritual narratives beyond the normative, embracing fluidity, mysticism, and personal myth-making. Submissions may be visual, textual, or hybrid, and should evoke a sense of the uncanny, the sacred, and the speculative—worlds where queerness is ancestral, cosmic, and divine.
Pieces must be original, unpublished work in genres including, but not limited to: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, comics, visual art, scripts, and multimedia (video, audio, music, interactive pieces, experimental work, etc.) that align with the current issue’s theme.
This online exclusive issue will be published as a summer issue on our website. We’re especially interested in pieces that experiment with form, push boundaries, and reflect the complexity, joy, rage, beauty, and multiplicity of the queer experience.
WHY ONLINE EXCLUSIVE?
Our print publication has limits—page counts, dimensions, ink. This digital issue is a space without borders. We want to uplift work that can’t—or won’t—fit in print: multimedia projects, audio pieces, visual art, and performance pieces that demand to be seen and heard in digital space.
General Submission Guidelines:
We accept only first rights to publication.
We do accept simultaneous submissions, however please withdraw pieces that have been accepted elsewhere.
Please include a short bio, description of your work, any past publications, and applicable trigger warnings in your cover letter.
Visual and [multi]media work must be web-viewable—please include links or uploads through Submittable and include content warnings if applicable
Genre Specific Guidelines
Please submit up to 5 pieces
For video and audio submissions, please limit to 5 minutes
We accept art created via all mediums (except AI — if a submission is suspected or found to be AI generated, it will be declined and we will not consider your work in the future). This includes, but is not limited to, photography, painting, digital, ink, pencil, collage, etc.
Acceptable file types: .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .tif, .tiff, .png, .svg, .pdf, .doc, .docx, .txt, .rtf, .odt, .mp3, .m4a, .wav, .mp4, .mov, .avi, .mpg, .3gp, .wmv
All applicable artworks submitted will be considered for cover art for the online exclusive issue
We love experimental work, feel free to submit hybrid forms that blend genres
For grant purposes, we cannot consider submissions that do not include a completed demographic survey with their submission
Foglifter aims to reflect the vibrant diversity of the LGBTQ+ literary community in our award-winning journal. Fill out our anonymized Demographics Survey to be considered for publication—then take a screenshot of the thank-you screen at the end and attach it along with your submission.
foglifter.submittable.com/submit
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Sun and Zhang Family Distinguished Fellowship for AAPI Social Practice Artists of the American South
Hambidge Center
DEADLINE: April 15, 2026
APPLICATION FEE: $30 (If this represents a barrier to submitting an application, please contact our Office Manager at office@hambidge.org to discuss a waiver. The DEADLINE to request a fee waiver is four days before the application deadline.)
INFO: The Hambidge Center is pleased to announce the new Sun and Zhang Family Distinguished Fellowship for AAPI Social Practice Artists of the American South.
This merit-based award supports an Asian American Pacific Islander social practice artist working in the South or deeply rooted in the region, recognizing work that blends creative practice with meaningful community engagement. The selected Fellow will receive a two-week residency and a $700 stipend during the fall 2026 session.
RESIDENCY DATES: Fall (September - December)
ABOUT THE HAMBIDGE CENTER:
The Hambidge Center is situated on 600 forested acres in the mountains of north Georgia and offers miles of nature trails, meadows, waterfalls, a swimming hole and an abundance of wildflowers.
The oldest residency program in the Southeast, Hambidge provides a self-directed program that honors the creative process and trusts individuals to know what they need to cultivate their talent, whether it’s to work and produce, to think, to experiment or to rejuvenate. Residents’ time is their own; there are no workshops, critiques, nor required activities.
Each resident is given their own private studio which provides work and living space with a bathroom and full kitchen. The studios are designed to protect residents’ time, space and solitude.
Resident groups are intentionally kept small enough (8-10 people) to gather around the dinner table each evening, Tuesday through Friday, for delicious vegetarian meals prepared by our chef. These communal meals are an essential part of the Hambidge residency experience. Serious topics are discussed (and light-hearted ones, too), experiences are shared, and encouragement is given. Many a collaboration and life-long friendship have begun at the Hambidge dinner table.
Members of each resident group come from different walks of life and work in different creative disciplines; from musicians, culinary artisans and scientists, to visual artists, writers, dancers and arts & culture administrators. Each year, residents of all ages come to Hambidge from over 30 states across the U.S., as well as internationally.
Specialized equipment and facilities include the Antinori Pottery Studio, and a beautifully rebuilt turn-of-the-century Steinway grand piano housed in Garden Studio.
ACCESSIBILITY: Hambidge offers two ADA-compliant studios: Brena Studio and Cove Studio. Our dining and common areas can be navigated, but are not yet fully compliant. There are no sidewalks or paved areas; the connecting driveways are gravel and uneven. If you come to Hambidge without a car, the on-campus studios will require a walk to get to Lucinda’s Rock House. On average, the studios are 0.3 miles from the Rock House with a 157-elevation gain, walking on a gravel road with uneven terrain. For more information, please contact our Office Manager at 706-746-7324.
WHAT TO KNOW BEFORE YOU APPLY:
The studios are comfortable, but rustic and secluded. They are purposely simple, and most are out of sight of each other and somewhat isolated.
We are located in a forested environment. Residents should expect to occasionally encounter wildlife and insects – and sometimes the insects are inside the studios.
It is very dark at night. There are no street lights or ambient light, other than the moon and stars.
Due to our remote location, there is no cell service at Hambidge. Each studio has a phone for emergency, local and incoming calls.
To encourage focused creativity, there is no internet in the studios. WiFi is available 24 hours a day in the communal space of Lucinda's Rock House.
Please thoroughly read the Guidelines, Application Instructions, and our FAQs before submitting your application.
ELIGIBILITY: Qualified applicants must feel they have achieved a level of excellence within their discipline. We are looking for applicants whose creative practice is a professional practice and not a hobby. It is not required that your creative career is your only career, or that you make your livelihood doing it. We seek applications from emerging and mid-career creatives, as well as from those who are established with national and/or international reputations.
Applications for residency are judged primarily on the quality of submitted work samples and professional promise. Hambidge accepts approximately 170 artists each year. There are no publication, exhibition, or performance requirements contingent on a Hambidge residency.
The Hambidge Center encourages creative professionals of all backgrounds to apply for admission. We celebrate varied ideas, world views, and personal characteristics, and are committed to being an organization that welcomes and respects everyone regardless of age, ability, ethnicity, race, religion, philosophical or political beliefs, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, nationality, geographic origin, and socioeconomic status.
RETURNING FELLOWS: Returning Fellows must submit a new application with recent work samples in the appropriate category of their discipline. After attending a Hambidge residency, Fellows must wait 2 years before returning. For instance, if you were in residence during the 2022 Summer Session, you may apply to return for the 2024 Summer Session.
RESIDENCY FEE:
The residency fee is $300 per week.
Note: the actual cost of a residency is $2250/wk. Every year, the Hambidge Center raises funds to supplement $1950 for every residency week, leaving each resident with only the $300/wk fee.
Funding
Hambidge offers several merit-based Distinguished Fellowships which remove the fees for a two-week residency and provide a $700 stipend. Available Distinguished Fellowships vary from session to session and are listed in each session's application. Unless otherwise noted, they are reserved for first-time residents. The list of previously awarded Distinguished Fellowships can be seen here.
Financial Aid
Hambidge offers limited financial aid scholarships to accepted residents. The average award amount is $250, with a maximum award of $500. In an average year, aid is awarded to 35% of those who requst it; resulting in 8% of all residents receiving some financial aid.
Upon acceptance to the program, applicants requesting financial aid will have five days to complete the required forms and may be asked to submit last year's tax return or other confirmation. International applicants will be asked to complete a questionnaire instead of providing a tax return.
ADMISSION PANELS: Applications in each discipline are reviewed by panels of three esteemed peers within that discipline. Panel membership is rotated frequently.
LENGTH OF STAY: Applicants may request stays between two weeks and eight weeks. Residents arrive on Tuesday and depart on Sunday. Residencies of one week are available to Arts & Culture Administrator applicants and Culinary applicants ONLY. Eight-week residencies will only be scheduled in the Fall and Spring Sessions. The maximum length of residencies awarded in Summer Session is four weeks. Because of differing lengths of individual stays, residents will arrive and depart on varying schedules.
CREATIVE DISCILPLINES:
Hambidge accepts applications in the following disciplines:
ARTS & CULTURE ADMINISTRATION - including proposals for professional projects and/or personal creative projects by administrators working for arts, culture or environmental organizations, or independently (a freelance curator, for example). It is not a requirement that the organization be a non-profit, however it must be an organization that works with or assists other people or produces public projects.
CERAMICS - including functional and sculptural
CULINARY ARTS - including recipe development, cookbook writing, food writing, food styling, food photography, and food preservation
DANCE - including choreography, performance, and theory
MUSIC - including composition, performance, vocal, and theory, in all genres of music
SCIENCE - this residency offers scientists in any branch of science a place to write and/or organize research
VISUAL ARTS - including book arts, conceptual art, design, drawing, environmental art, fiber arts, film & video, installation arts, metalworking, mixed media, multimedia art, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and woodworking
Note: We do not have darkroom, sculpture/woodworking, or printmaking facilities, but provide exploration space for artists working in those disciplines. Those working in wood or metal must bring their own tools and machinery.
WRITING - including academic scholarship, criticism, fiction, history, poetry, journalism, nonfiction, philosophy, playwriting, screenwriting, storytelling
Multidisciplinary
If your proposal combines PROFESSIONAL expertise in more than one discipline, you will be asked to indicate the other discipline(s) that should be considered in the JUDGING of your proposal. Make sure your proficiency in each discipline is demonstrated in your submitted work samples. Expert jurors from all the indicated disciplines will be asked to judge your submission at an expert level.
Examples: a journalist creating both written and photographic content; a graphic novelist; a ceramicist writing a guide to glazes. NOT, for example, a visual artist exploring scientific themes in their work.
NOTE: Don't weaken your application by including secondary, less expert work samples. If, for example, you are a dancer who intends to dance during your residency, but also enjoys painting, you may dance and paint if you're accepted at Hambidge without saying you are Multidisciplinary and without including paintings in your work samples.
References
Hambidge no longer requires letters of recommendation as part of the application materials.
Collaborations
Collaborative couples and groups must submit the Slideroom application specific to Collaborations. EACH MEMBER of the collaboration must ALSO complete this form before the deadline in order for your application to be complete.
Couples
Non-collaborating couples who wish to be in residence together must submit individual applications. They may request concurrent residency dates and choose whether or not to share studio/living space. The acceptance of one partner does NOT guarantee the acceptance of the other. No other provisions are made for partners.
Children
Hambidge has hosted several residents accompanied by their children. We are still developing our parental program, but we are quite willing to work with applicants to find the best timing and to recommend part-time childcare for their stay. Before you submit an application, read more about our Parental Residencies.
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2027 Writers-in-residence program
Hedgebrook
DEADLINE: April 17, 2026
APPLICATION FEE: $45
INFO: Hedgebrook’s Writer-in-Residence Program supports women-identified writers,18 and older, from all over the world for residencies of two or three weeks. The cottage, all meals, and the entire residency experience at Hedgebrook are free to selected writers. Travel is not included and is the responsibility of the writer to arrange and pay for. Up to 6 writers can be in residence at a time, each housed in their own handcrafted cottage. Days are spent in solitude – writing, reading, taking walks in the woods on the property or on nearby Double Bluff beach. In the evenings, “The Gathering” is a social time for residents to connect and share over their freshly prepared meals.
GENRES:
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Playwriting
Poetry
Screenwriting/TV
hedgebrook.org/writers-in-residence
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2026-2027 Baldwin Fellowship Program
Baldwin for the Arts |📍Brewster, NY
DEADLINE: April 18, 2026
APPLICATION FEE: $15
INFO: The mission of Baldwin For The Arts is to support the creation of art reflecting the lived experiences of African, Asian, Caribbean, Indigenous, Hispanic/ Latino/a/x, and dual-heritage backgrounds at no cost to the artists.
Exclusively devoted to people of the Global Majority, Baldwin For The Arts is committed to cultivating creative liberation for literary, visual, performing, and interdisciplinary artists. Baldwin Fellowships cover all residency costs for accepted artists including transportation, living accommodations, a private workspace, and daily meals prepared by a local chef.
The term “Global Majority” is a positive (re)framing of diverse and historically marginalized communities. Rather than view people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Indigenous, Hispanic/Latino/a/x, and dual-heritage backgrounds as minorities, the term recognizes that ‘Globally’ these populations are the Majority.
At this time, we are not accepting international applications. We encourage you to frequent our Instagram account and subscribe to our website to receive newsletters and stay informed about future updates and opportunities.
Emerging and established artists of the Global Majority who specialize in the following disciplines are encouraged to apply:
Literature: All genres.
Performance: All disciplines which are performed in front of a live audience, including theater, music composition, and dance.
Visual: All art forms that use paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects including painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, and filmmaking (includes documentary, narrative, and experimental projects).
Interdisciplinary: All projects that use multiple disciplines, such as science, technology, literature, philosophy, to create new and unique artistic experiences.
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Sixth Annual APIDA 24-hour playwriting contest
entertwine
DEADLINE: April 24, 2026
INFO: During entertwine’s APIDA 24-hour playwriting contest, participants face the challenge of crafting a short play within a tight 24-hour timeframe. To ensure fairness, all writers must incorporate provided “easter eggs” into their plays to be considered for judging.
The contest identifies ten outstanding up-and-coming playwrights who identify as Asian Pacific Islander Desi Americans. These playwrights then have the opportunity to refine their craft through our fellowship and receive invaluable feedback from a distinguished panel of judges, before having a staged reading at the JANM Democracy Center in Los Angeles
How pieces will be evaluated (aka our rubric): https://tinyurl.com/enterwinerubric
To learn more about the contest last year, JANM, the judges, and the playwrights: https://medium.com/@entertwine/2025-entertwines-grand-event-at-the-janm-democracy-center-playbill-fd651d11ca0f
Any questions, please contact someone@entertwine.us
airtable.com/appzWSpYVZ1si6gjZ/shr20JfE1fP6nMiWG
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Page 73 Development ProgramS
Page 73 Productions (Brooklyn, NY)
DEADLINE: April 26, 2026 at 11:59pm ET
INFO: Page 73 has two development programs available to early-career playwrights through this application. Playwrights may apply for either or both programs as they see fit and are eligible (see below).
1. The Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship
The Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship provides a year of comprehensive support to one early-career playwright who has not received a professional production in New York City (please see eligibility requirements below). Through this program, Page 73 provides artistic and financial resources to this writer as they develop one or more new plays of their choosing. The Page 73 Playwriting Fellow receives an unrestricted award of $20,000, a development budget of $10,000 managed by Page 73 and the Fellow over the course of the Fellowship year, and at least one workshop culminating in a public reading.
The Fellow is encouraged to think creatively about using Fellowship resources to meet concrete goals that might not otherwise be possible. These goals may include, but are not limited to, development of one or more new plays, assistance in building relationships within the New York City theater community, research, and/or travel. Please note that Page 73 does not commit to producing the work of the Fellow. Page 73 also helps the Fellow identify and connect with collaborators, including directors, designers, actors, and dramaturgs.
The Fellow will actively work with Page 73 for the 2027 calendar year. After selection, the Fellow will collaborate with Page 73’s staff to design a plan for the year and establish a timeline for the development work to be done on the new play or plays.
If the Fellow is not a New York City resident, they must be prepared to travel to New York during the Fellowship year in order to fully engage in the opportunities that the Fellowship provides.
Anyone who wishes to be considered for the 2027 Fellowship must submit this application.
2. The Page 73 Writers Group
The Page 73 Writers Group is a yearlong writers group consisting of seven or eight playwrights. Led by Page 73’s Artistic Director and Associate Artistic Director, the Writers Group meets twice monthly on weeknight evenings at our office in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Each playwright receives a $3,000 stipend for participating. Participants take turns bringing in pages for the group to discuss.
The Writers Group begins in January and meetings run through December; sessions are typically suspended for a period in the summer. Please consult the eligibility requirements below. Page 73 selects participants from individuals we meet through this application process as well as from individuals who have become known to the company through other means.
Note: While Page 73's staff may, at their discretion, offer a spot in the Writers Group to a playwright who meets the eligibility requirements but has not submitted an application for the program, anyone who wishes to be considered for the 2027 Fellowship must submit this application.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
Applicants for both programs:
The applicant must be a US resident at the time of participation;
The applicant must have completed at least 2 full-length plays or at least 3 one-act plays;
The applicant must have made a commitment to playwriting as a professional goal;
The applicant must have never received a production in New York City that is fully contracted with Actors Equity Association and ran for at least four weeks or twenty-one performances;
The applicant must not be enrolled in a full-time degree/certificate program at the time of participation.
Writers Group applicants:
Attendance at all Writers Group sessions is extremely important. Please do not apply for the Writers Group if you will be unable to attend meetings in New York City on a regular basis. Priority is given to writers who are not involved in other similarly supported institutional writing groups.
We understand this application occurs well in advance of 2027. If you are not sure about your plans for 2027, you are welcome to apply for the Writers Group and update us regarding your eligibility.
APPLICATION MATERIALS:
The following materials must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST on April 26, 2026 to be considered for the 2027 development programs.
Completed Online Application Form (Below) *NOTE: Please have all your PDF documents ready to upload. The work on this form cannot be saved.
Letter of Intent (700 word limit, uploaded as a PDF). Please introduce yourself and your writing to us in this Letter of Intent. Your letter must answer the following questions:
How would the Page 73 development program(s) that you're applying for help you address your current artistic challenge(s)?
How would the Page 73 development program(s) that you're applying for help you address your current professional challenge(s)?
A sample from a full script (uploaded as a PDF). Please include the play's character list and a 10-page excerpt. We are open to receiving samples that do not come from the beginning of your play, however please choose consecutive pages.
The full script from which you selected your 10-page sample (uploaded as a PDF)
Playwriting Resume (uploaded as a PDF). Note: We do not wish to receive a bio in place of or in addition to a resume.
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The Democracy Cycle
PAC NYC
DEADLINE: April 28, 2026 at 5pm ET
INFO: In January 2024, The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) and Civis Foundation partnered to launch The Democracy Cycle, a commissioning program designed to support new works that illuminate the promise, practice, imperfection, and opportunity of democracy.
Over a five-year period, The Democracy Cycle will commission and develop 25 new performing arts works across the fields of theater, dance, music, opera, and multi-disciplinary performance. The commissioned works, to be selected over the course of three annual Rounds of Open Calls (2024, 2025, and 2026) will explore themes relating to the nature, practice, and experience of democracy.
Civis and PAC NYC have come together because of our shared beliefs to create this commissioning program. These shared beliefs are:
We believe that democratic values are a global expression of humanity’s striving to live with one another with respect and in peace.
We believe that democracy, as practiced in the United States of America, includes a history of founding exclusions and that it has been, and must continue to be, the ongoing work of our society to expand upon the inclusive ideals embedded in our founding documents.
We believe that democracy faces significant perceived and actual threats in the current moment, both domestically and internationally.
We believe that the intersection of capitalism and democracy creates both opportunities and tensions.
We believe that artists are the beating heart of democratic values because of their ability to imagine new worlds, envision new possibilities, and provoke meaningful discourse across any number of divides.
Our hope is that projects commissioned as part of The Democracy Cycle will enrich and expand the discussion around and participation in democracy – be it in the national, state, regional, or hyperlocal community realm – as it is practiced both within the United States and worldwide.
The Cycle will provide $60,000 in support to each awarded project, consisting of a $30,000 commission as well as an additional $30,000 towards each commissioned project’s development process (research, readings, workshops etc.). The commissions will be awarded across three annual Open Calls, beginning in January 2024. In each Open Call, The Democracy Cycle will commission at least eight projects.
For more information, please read the following material and review our FAQs and Submission Guidelines, which will be updated before the start of each Open Call.
Alongside this Request for Proposals or RFP, applicants are encouraged to review PAC NYC’s mission and Civis’ missionbefore submitting proposal materials.
ELIGIBILITY:
To be eligible to apply for a commission from The Democracy Cycle, lead applicants must
Be generative artists who are currently creating new work in theater, dance, music, opera, and multi-disciplinary performance
Have created 2 or more completed and presented works
Not be currently enrolled as a full-time student in a degree-granting program. PhD candidates need to have completed their coursework by the application deadline to be eligible
Be eighteen years of age or older
Propose a new project that is not a remount, has not yet been premiered, and is not planned to premiere before May 1, 2027
Propose a new performance project meant to be developed and performed live, and planned to be completed in 2027 or 2028. Works may be interdisciplinary and can include collaborators in other artistic forms. At the time of application, a work may be in an early, mid, or later stage of development so long as it is not planned to premiere before May 1, 2027
Artists may either be U.S. citizens, or citizens of other countries, this is a national and international open call. Note: all artists commissioned are responsible for any tax implications involved in accepting a monetary award from a U.S.-based arts organization
Proposals are not eligible if
The main purpose is the curation or documentation of existing work
The proposed project has already premiered, or will premiere before May 1, 2027
The generative artist is enrolled as a full-time student in a degree granting program
The proposed project advocates by name for the success or failure of a current partisan candidate for office or a political party
The lead artist or any of the main collaborators are employees of, immediate family of employees of, or consultants to PAC NYC or Civis Foundation
pacnyc.org/the-democracy-cycle/
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Native American Artist Lab
The Playwrights Realm
DEADLINE: April 30, 2026
INFO: The Native American Artist Lab supports emerging and aspiring Indigenous artists. It was created to provide opportunities for Native Communities on whose unceded land we stand and to help address a lack of support for Native artists in theatre. The program provides resources including professional development opportunities, dramaturgical support, and a public reading in New York. Participants have the opportunity to work with top-notch professional collaborators, including director, cast, and The Realm's artistic staff as well as mentorship opportunities with the program’s Native co-facilitators.
PROGRAM DETAILS:
A paid developmental process of up to one week culminating in a reading in New York City. All readings will include a public reception.
Professional team of collaborators including actors, directors, and Realm artistic staff.
The Realm works with a casting director who is knowledgeable about the community of Native actors to help the team find a cast and can facilitate introductions to directors or other types of collaborators.
Online Playwrights group meetings with playwrights and co-facilitators of the program (Vickie Ramirez, DeLanna Studi, and Katherine Kovner) provide a structure for script feedback and development. Dramaturgical development and discussion with the Realm’s artistic staff prior to and following the reading. The program’s co-creator Rhiana Yazzie is an additional resource and consultation with a culturally specific dramaturg can also be provided.
Opportunities for Native artist only spaces are provided for the writers and Native co-facilitators to speak about their work and experiences together within the community. Communal activities for the group while in New York help to further these relationships.
A mentor is provided to each playwright to help further their professional development.
Group Facilitators provide individualized attention and support tailored to the desires of participants.
All housing and transport costs for participation in an in-person reading will be paid by The Playwrights Realm for The Playwright, Director and, if essential for casting roles, can also be discussed for one or two key parts.
WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
For Native American Artist Lab, we are looking for projects that are supporting and uplifting the stories of/by/for Native American and Indigenous peoples. We are seeking not just artists from Domestic Nations, but projects rooted in Native Theater practices. In an effort to meet Native American Artists where they are, dismantle our biases, and create a welcoming space for them, we are opening up Native American Artist Lab to teams with multiple authors and generative artists who don’t identify with the label playwright.
The finalists for Native American Artists Lab will be chosen by a panel of Native American artists. Finalists will then be interviewed by Realm Artistic Staff who will make the final choice of recipients.
playwrightsrealm.org/native-american-artist-lab
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Martha MOCA ARTIST Residency
MarthaMOCA |📍Lambertville, NJ
DEADLINE: April 30, 2026
INFO: MarthaMOCA provides one-month residencies for artists of all disciplines. Residents are given use of a fully furnished private live/work space- with a studio, bathroom, & kitchen on the ground floor and a lofted bedroom and living space above. The residency comes with a $500 stipend. Residents are free to enjoy our 40 acre property; with walking paths through the woods, a tranquil pond, lap pool when in season, and garden. Because we are in a rural setting, it is preferable for residents to bring a vehicle.
There are no requirements to create or produce work while in residence; we encourage artists to use their time as best suits their own process. The towns of Lambertville, New Hope, and Frenchtown are nearby and supply necessary amenities. The closest train station is Hamilton Station via NJ Transit, and the closest airports are Newark and Philadelphia. NYC is a 1.5 hour drive away, and Philadelphia is 45 min.
Application submissions will be accepted for September and October 2026 residencies from April 1-30th 2026. We typically make a decision by mid May. All applicants will be emailed a response then.
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Rella Lossy Award
Theatre Bay Area
DEADLINE: May 4, 2026 at 5pm PT
INFO: The Rella Lossy Award honors the memory of Rella Lossy, a lifelong champion of the American theatre and playwriting, by honoring the best new full-length script of a play by an emerging playwright that will premiere in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma in the coming year.
ELIGIBILITY: The Rella Lossy Award is an award for professionally-oriented theatre organizations that will be presenting a world-premiere full-length play by an emerging playwright. The award goes to the playwright and the producing company.
For the purposes of this award, we define “emerging” as a writer that has yet to be produced on Broadway or by a LORT member theatre.
Must be located in one of the following counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, or Sonoma.
AWARD:
Playwright: $2,500
Company: $1,000
ELIGIBILITY:
COMPANIES
Must be located in one of the following counties: Alameda, Contra Costa,Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, or Sonoma.
Must have an active company membership with Theatre Bay Area that’s maintained through the granting period (May 1, 2026 - July 1, 2027)
Must be committed to producing a full-length world premiere work by an emerging playwright that opens on or after May 1, 2026 and closes on or before July 1, 2027
Must commit to development of the piece with the playwright (as described below)
YOUR COMPANY IS INELIGIBLE:
It’s primarily a presenter or performance venueI
t’s an academic institution or training program
A member of your company leadership or board member at your company is serving on the Rella Lossy granting panel for this round
PLAYWRIGHTS
Must be “emerging.” For the purposes of this award, “emerging playwright” is defined as a playwright who has not had a prior full production on Broadway or in a LORT member theatre. LORT member theatres are eligible to apply for this award as long as the playwright has not had a full production at a LORT or on Broadway prior to the opening of this production.
Playwrights do not need to be based in the Bay Area.
Playwrights do not need to be TBA members.
A PLAYWRIGHT IS INELIGIBLE IF:
They have had a previous full production on Broadway or at a LORT member theatre.
They are currently a Theatre Bay Area employee or board member.
They are serving on the Rella Lossy granting panel for this round.
DEVELOPMENT PROCESS:
The company must commit to developing the script with the playwright in ONE (or more) of the following ways:
The playwright is an active part of the rehearsal process, attending at least of rehearsals.
The company holds a developmental reading with the playwright, with professional/professionally-oriented actors and a professional/professionally-oriented dramaturg.
The company commits to a workshop process with the playwright, the director,professional/professionally-oriented actors and a professional/professionally-oriented dramaturg before rehearsals begin.
Any other development process the playwright and the company find productive and necessary.
HOW DECISIONS ARE MADE:
A panel of three theatre professionals, including at least one playwright, will be recruited to review applications. Decisions will be made by the panel, whose names and bios will be released when the awardees are announced.
TIMELINE:
Awardees will be contacted by June 19, 2026.
theatrebayarea.org/grants/rella-lossy-award/
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THE BLACK LIST X TRW COLLECTION
The Black List / Theatrical Rights Worldwide
DEADLINE: May 1, 2026
INFO: The Black List and Theatrical Rights Worldwide (TRW) have partnered to publish and license a minimum of six plays annually from writers discovered on blcklst.com.
The six plays will be published and licensed under The Black List x TRW Collection, which will make the work accessible to a wide range of customers, including schools, colleges and universities, community and regional theaters, and more. The Black List and TRW hope to add at least six plays each year to The Collection. All writers are welcome to submit their plays for consideration.
Writers will be invited to contribute to The Collection semi-annually, with semi-annual review cycles deadlines on the first of May and November each year.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
If selected for The Collection, will I receive any payment?
Publishing is the process of taking your script and formatting it into an acting edition suitable for use in the production of your play. Publishing is comprised of a printed and digital edition of your play and having it available for purchase by theatre companies for performance use as well as libraries and consumers who are interested in purchasing your script for study or personal enjoyment. As the author, you receive a portion of the sale price for each such printed or digital purchase of your play.
Licensing is the issuance of a performance license to theatrical organizations comprised of schools, amateur and professional theatre companies and the like, governing the authorized presentation of your play. The terms of a performance license assure that your copyright is protected and that a royalty fee, which is afforded to the author of the play, is collected for each performance of the play.
If selected for The Collection, will I receive any payment?
If selected for the collection you will not receive an upfront payment. However, upon the first performance of your play under license by TRW Plays, you will receive your royalty payment in accordance with the terms of the license agreement.
What is the benefit of having my play licensed and published?
By having your play published and licensed, you will benefit from worldwide marketing, management and visibility of your play, revenue potential from all sectors of the theatrical marketplace along with administrative and copyright services.
Will the Black List or TRW help me figure out how to get paid if my play is licensed and published in The Collection?
Yes, TRW Plays will serve as your licensing agent for the live, stage performance of your play. As such, TRW Plays will, on your behalf, handle all aspects of publication and licensing and distribute payment to you in accordance with industry standards for such services.
Will I still hold rights to my work if it is selected for The Collection? Will I still be able to independently put up my play if it is selected?
You will always hold the copyright in your play. However, on your behalf, TRW Plays will serve as the sole and exclusive publishing and licensing representative for your play. In most instances, you will retain the right to independently produce your play on Broadway or the West End. But all other productions of your play would be handled by TRW Plays.
REQUIREMENTS:
You must post an original stage play on www.blcklst.com and opt-in to the Program during the Submission Period.
You must agree to (1) these Submission Requirements, (2) all terms relating to the Program posted on Black List’s website, which you should review and read in full, and (3) the Submission Agreement, which governs the submission of your script to Company and Black List. The Submission Agreement includes important, legally binding terms and conditions, including arbitration of any disputes, which you must read in full before accepting.
If requested, you must submit by a date determined by Company the following materials, which are also governed by the Submission Agreement:
A professional resume and personal statement;
Contact and other personal information; and
Executed originals of the Submission Agreement.
If selected by Company for the Program, as a condition of your participation, you must agree to Company’s terms of participation, including without limitation a publishing deal and/or licensing deal, which shall be negotiated in good faith.
You must be at least 18 years of age and not a minor in the state or country of your residence at time of submission.
If the submitted materials written by a team consisting of one or more writers, (i) each member of that writing team must comply with these Submission Requirements, including agreeing to the Submission Agreement described below and (ii) all members of the writing team must opt-out of the Program if any other member becomes ineligible (including as a result of failing to timely agree to the Submission Agreement or failing to timely provide the materials listed above).
The submitted materials must be wholly original to you and you must be the sole owner of all rights. The submitted materials must not in any way infringe upon the copyright of any person or entity or, to the best of your knowledge in the exercise of reasonable prudence, constitute libel, defamation or invasion of privacy or any other rights of any third party. You understand and agree that Black List will share any information that you provide in connection with the Program with Company.
blcklst.com/programs/the-black-list-x-trw-collection
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Tulsa Artist Fellowship
📍Tulsa, OK
DEADLINE: May 7, 2026 at 6:00 pm CT
INFO: Tulsa Artist Fellowship supports artists as vital contributors to Tulsa’s cultural life.
We invest in long-term creative practice, offering artists the time, resources, and community to develop ambitious work rooted in Tulsa.
Our approach is artist-centered and flexible, grounded in the understanding that meaningful creative work takes time—and that artists thrive when trusted to define their own paths.
Tulsa Artist Fellowship is a place-based, durational award supporting visionary artists and arts workers across disciplines.
Open to artists and arts workers with at least five years of field experience, the Fellowship selects up to ten awardees, who will be announced live on November 6 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Each awardee is provided a comprehensive support package that includes a $150,000 stipend, housing support, fully subsidized studio space, and access to shared art-making facilities.
Awardees commit to developing ambitious, community-engaged work that contributes to Tulsa’s cultural life and advances the Fellowship’s mission to support independent arts practitioners.
Program details may evolve to best support participating artists and the Fellowship’s mission.
Competitive applications will demonstrate:
A rigorous and innovative arts practice
A meaningful connection to making work in Tulsa
A forward-thinking, achievable project with strong community engagement and impact
AWARD STRUCTURE:
Each Fellow is supported through a comprehensive three-year award package designed to strengthen artistic development, stability, and well-being.
Financial Support
$150,000 project development and artistic practice stipend (over 3 years)
$36,000 housing support (over 3 years)
$1,500 studio move-in stipend
$3,600 studio assistant support (over 3 years)
$3,600 health and wellness support (over 3 years)
Community & Connection
Cohort gatherings and shared meals
Open studio events and public programs
Opportunties to engage with visiting arts professionals
Studio Workspace
Access to a fully subsidized private studio (337–583 sq ft)
Shared facilities include a ceramics studio with kilns, a woodshop, metal equipment, a media lab, an archival printer, a roof terrace, a performance rehearsal space, a podcast recording studio, and meeting rooms with video and audio capabilities
(Estimated value: $36,000 over 3 years)
Wellness & Care
YMCA membership for household
Caregiver reimbursements for key Fellowship activities
APPLICATION MATERIALS:
All applications are completed online and free to submit. Detailed instructions are provided in the application portal.
Basic information, including contact details, residence, citizenship, identity, and household information
Artistic background, including resume/CV, website, social media platforms, biography (up to 250 words), and collaborator information
(Collaborators must submit individual applications)Artistic Practice Statement (up to 500 words) and Fellowship Statement (up to 500 words)
Three-year project proposal, including project title, description (up to 500 words), role statement (up to 200 words), and optional visual or media support materials
Proposed use of the fellowship stipend, estimated budget for the $150,000 award, including living expenses, artistic production, and project-related costs.
Three professional references from the arts field